Can I make a template private, so that it does not show up on search engines?

I am interested in purchasing the New Blog Templates plugin in order to create 20 templates. I do not want these templates to be public though ie. accessible by URL or search engines. Is it possible to make them private.

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Yes. The New Blog Templates plugin is nice because it allows you to choose what elements you want duplicated. One of these settings you can have duplicated is the Settings > Privacy options. Here you can choose to have search engines NOT index your website. You can also set the no-index tags in a theme template (depending on the theme) or via an SEO plugin.

Just remember that just because the no-index tag is present, search engines can choose whether or not to honor the request. The search engines that matter typically do though.

Thank you for the great question and Gabe came through with several options and the only thing I see he did not include was the robots.txt file which could possibly have the disallow to the path of the themes i.e. Disallow /wp-content/themes/ or any other URL that you do not want spidered.

But as Gabe also mentioned there is no guarantee that they will honor this or any other block and there are indeed rogue spiders out there that indeed will do what they want.

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